After decades of searching, physicists announced on July 4 that they had produced convincing evidence for the Higgs boson, a particle that may explain why matter has mass. Below are links to the most recent coverage in Science News, related articles from our archives (which have been made available to nonsubscribers), and links to additional resources on the Higgs particle.

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Higgs Hysteria While some of the hype around the boson’s discovery was exaggerated, many aspects of the Higgs’...